"I think it's really necessary to respond to some criticism seen on the reactions to the latest OSnews article. I won't go into the article itself, imho it's rather negative, but hey. From an user's perspective, it makes sense to only review 3 or 4 parts of KDE 4 and complain about them, and ignore all the other brilliant pieces of work in there, right? On to the responses, I found this reaction by dagw to be the most typical. Well. That's painful. So, is he right? Did we make the wrong decision? Let's look at it from a broader perspective for a while. Let's see it in the Grand Scheme of Things to Come."
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Member since:2005-07-07
I already know I will not like KDE 4.0, the biggest thing that annoys me is the huge taskbar which one apparently can't resize. But, will 4.1 fix that? And will 4.1 bring with it anything else worth mentioning or will it be more like a fix'n'polish release? I think I'll postpone trying KDE4 somewhat, atleast until the taskbar is fixed 
But even if I did like it I still won't migrate until I don't need to install any KDE3.x libs or dependencies to be able to do all the stuff I normally do (like using music players et al).
Aaron's blog says that panel / desktop is next on the TODO. See: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/ or follow planetkde.org . Given that the lack of configuration is considered a fairly serious regression you'll see a far more flexible panel by 4.1. Plasma was exempt from a lot of the KDE 4.0.0 freeze (and is far better for it.) so maybe there'll be some latitude in covering panel regression for 4.0.x. I don't know for sure, but given the PITA factor of needing a text editor now it wouldn't surprise me... So you're probably looking at weeks or months for the panel... A half year for 4.1, the big 3rd party apps, and KDE Pim.
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2006-02-15
I already know I will not like KDE 4.0, the biggest thing that annoys me is the huge taskbar which one apparently can't resize. But, will 4.1 fix that? And will 4.1 bring with it anything else worth mentioning or will it be more like a fix'n'polish release? I think I'll postpone trying KDE4 somewhat, atleast until the taskbar is fixed
But even if I did like it I still won't migrate until I don't need to install any KDE3.x libs or dependencies to be able to do all the stuff I normally do (like using music players et al).